Family Historian User Group

I have a problem with a numbering plugin. The plugin works fine for most of my file but I found one individual who was consistently not being numbered. It turned out to be one of a pair of siblings who had no recorded parents. It is an old file I am using for practice and I have no idea why they wer...

It may be an 'administrator problem'. Try the following: find the shortcut you are using in the start menu; right click and select Run as Administrator. If that solves the problem then you should go into the property box for the shortcut > Compatibility tab and tick Run this program as an Administra...

Mike

You are correct it is unconventional. However, I was giving it as an example of pre-filling in the date not as a suggestion for a way forward for census events.

David

I have been using FH for a couple of months and plugins are one of the main attractions and I suggest that that is the option to take. I have custom facts(attributes) for each UK census and a simple plugin to add such an event with date pre-entered. The 1841 effort is below and easily adapted to wha...

Many thanks Jane & Mike. I have had another search on the Lua community forum and came up with a number of threads which discuss nil at great length. The most useful thing I got was that I was not alone in being uneasy about nil and the second most useful thing is they it has convinced me to forget ...

Tongue-in-cheek warning ON "value nil whose main property is to be different from any other value" - personally I thought any value would be different from any other value! Sorry Jane.... Tongue-in-cheek warning OFF Adrian that phrase is precisely what set my alarms buzzing and my reaction to it wa...

Thanks for the very rapid response. I was in fact reading Programming in Lua when I decided that I was not comfortable with the definition of nil and so I read the reference manual which is, on this topic, almost identical to the PiL. My problem is not to do with the use of nil which I understand mo...

Having written a few "quick and dirty" plugins for my own use I made the (possibly rash) decision to try to understand Lua. It didn't take long for me to hit the wall with nil (although I have temporarily ignored my unease in order to make some progress). I have searched some of the Lua community fo...

I'm experimenting here and you try this at your own risk. Assuming your Windows drive is C: open the following file in your favourite text editor, I use Notepad++ but I'm sure Notepad will do fine C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Famly Historian\Reports\Standard\Descendants by Generation.fhr This is a sett...

Regarding multiple profiles: Internet Explorer only allows one profile per windows user and it is necessary to create new windows user accounts to get extra profiles (which is what I started to do). Firefox/Waterfox allow as many profiles as you wish within one windows user account; each profile hav...

Hi David That is in fact what I have been doing, but probably not as well organised as yours, the nesting is getting a bit deep and my mouse control is not always solid so I do sometimes click the wrong link or meander out of the folder and get nothing. I know it only saves me one level but it is us...

You're right that would have been safer. I was intending to set up a user purely for genealogical research with an instance of Internet Explorer containing all my genealogy links in the bookmarks toolbar and nothing else. However, I have found out that as well as IE and FH there are other applicatio...

Thanks Mike, fortunately I am not trying to set up another user for FH as most of the settings appear to be global. That link will go into my favourites for reference. Eventually I took the 'brute force and ignorance' method and replaced the new users HKCU\Software\Calico Pie\Family Historian branch...

I am in the process of setting up a new windows user profile and I ran Family Historian while logged in as the new user. It is clear from the appearance of the focus window + property box + source box that some settings are 'all users', such as the customised heading for the property box and other s...

Jane. It took me a while to find the clipboard functions and in the meantime in my usual "I had failed to see what is in front of me fashion" it hit me that as I was already using notepad so I might as well copy the custom ID into the notepad window

David

Good idea Jane. This is a good learning experience for me as so far I am working on a "need to know" basis with plugins and I didn't know about the function to get the current selected records. I will work on that one. It occurs to me that if I can get the custon Id onto the clipboard then with a bi...

Jane Perhaps "digging around" was the wrong expression and possibly I am not doing things the right way. During changing a Method 2 to a Method 1 source I select the main person involved in the focus window and the source I want to change and copy the source citation text into a notepad window. I th...

I hope it is OK to revisit old posts. Although the existing property box status and main tab of the property box do a good job of showing the custom ID I still find myself having to "dig aorund" to find it and am still missing having the ID showing in front of the name. I have therefore written a co...

Sorry to keep coming back to this topic but moving to Method 1 is taking up so much of my time that I haven't really left it. Following all the suggestions from Mike and others I learned a little bit about plugins and have written a plugin which searches out the source media (1 specific fact type an...

It's an aid to organization. I know that every census fact that I have entered comes from a source image in my source images folder. However, when I began this journey I did not work out in advance how to label these images and I didn't think to link them to citations. I now have thousands of images...

It is more than a week since I started this thread and since then I have been entering method 1 sources for census events. Adding an image to that source is simple using the multimedia tab in the source property box and showing the source image thumbnail in reports is equally simple, when you check ...

I voted for it depends because I always source where every piece of information arises, even if the source is an implication from another source (e.g. a census entry). Later when the information is firmed up I will remove this initial suggestion as I feel under no obligation to explain all the route...

Mike
Sorry my edit crossed your post post. The manual ordering I was referring to was as described in the help file namely click the List in Record Order button which then brings the up and down buttons into operation (even more tedious)

David

I have found a method of changing the order of facts within a date on a one-by-one basis - I do not know why it works, not even if it always works. If I change the occupation date to the day after the census click the date heading then of course it is listed the day after the census. If I now change...

When a census contains occupation information then I enter both Census & Occupation facts. The order in which these events turn up in the fact list, sorted by date, appears to be random, i.e., sometimes occupation first, sometimes census first. I understand that one solution is to re-order the list ...